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The Library of Mistakes is a financial history library with access by appointment only for approved Readers only.

Access is free to Readers.

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A comprehensive collection of books and other materials related to business and finance and our failure to learn the lessons of the past.

We welcome everyone – financial scholars, researchers, the retired, students and enthusiasts to our peaceful reading rooms.

Our collection addresses all the countries of the world.

You can email scanned documents to yourself or a colleague within the limits of copyright law.

We have split our collection to help you navigate the world’s business and financial history.

Library open 0900-1700 Monday-Friday. We follow the same holidays as the London Stock Exchange.

Our new library is growing and aims to provide the world’s best finance and business reference library.

Explore our collection online and verify we have the books you need before you come to visit.